There has been a glut of recent books – I am thinking of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, or Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, or Ben Lerner’s 10:04 – that dramatise the process of writing. Salinger’s Letters, the new novel by the Danish writer Nils Schou, does...

Keir Pratt and Matthew Landrum—Structo‘s fiction editor and poetry editor respectively—have had a busy month, and not just only with putting the finishing touches to the new issue. This from Matthew: I’m 26 days into Tupelo Press’ 30/30 challenge—writing a poem...

Structo issue 15 features 11 short stories, 17 poems, a feature essay and set of interviews about book cover design, and a wide-ranging interview with the ex-poet laureate of North Korea Jang Jin-sung. This is a special one. The short stories and poems in this...

The New French Extremity bludgeoned cinema audiences of the late 1990s to mid 2000s with a new twist on the horror genre that had to be seen to be believed. Only once, though, because who could rewatch Irréversible (2002), knowing what ordeal is in store for the two...